GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 31, Issue 44, 31 October 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 3, Sunday.— Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost - St. Malachy, Bishop and Confessor. „ 4, Monday.— St. Charles, Bishop and "Confessor. „ ' 5, Tuesday.— Most Pure Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. . „ 6, Wednesday. — St. John of Damascus, Confessor and Doctor. „ 7, Thursday.— St. Isidore, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. „ 8, Friday.— Octave of All Saints. „ 9, Saturday.— Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. St. Malachy, Bishop and Confessor. This saint was born in the North of Ireland, in Armagh, of which city he afterwards became Archbishop. Deputed by his colleagues in the ' episcopate to proceed to Rome on ecclesiastical business, St. Malachy made the acquaintance of the great St. Bernard, who thus writes of him : ' He seemed to live wholly to himself, yet so devoted to the service of his neighbors as if he lived wholly for them. If you saw him amidst the cares, and functions of his pastoral charge, you would say he was born for others, not for himself. Yet if you considered him in his retirement, or observed his constant recollection, you would think that he lived only to God and himself.' St. Malachy died at fc>t. Bernard's monastery of Clairvaux, at the age of 54, A.D. 1148. Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. This church is commonly known as the basilica of St. John Lateran. It is the Cathedral of Rome, and was the first of the great basilicas consecrated to Divine worship after the accession of Co*istantine had given peace to the Church.